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Best Picture - Jacques Perrin and Hamed Rachedi, Producers Writing (Screenplay--based on material from another medium) - Jorge Semprun, Costa-Gavras
A list of films that won the Academy Awards "Oscar" for "Best Motion Picture of the Year".
Elizabeth Taylor presenting producer Jerome Hellman with the Oscar® for Best Picture for "Midnight Cowboy" at the 42nd Academy Awards® in 1970.
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The 42nd Academy Awards were presented April 7, 1970, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. For the second year in a row, there was no official host. This was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be broadcast via satellite to an international audience, though outside North America, Mexico and Brazil were the only ...
- 1970. Filmsite's Greatest Films of 1970. PATTON (1970) Airport (1970) Five Easy Pieces (1970) Love Story (1970) M*A*S*H (1970) Actor: GEORGE C. SCOTT in "Patton", Melvyn Douglas in "I Never Sang For My Father", James Earl Jones in "The Great White Hope", Jack Nicholson in "Five Easy Pieces", Ryan O'Neal in "Love Story"
- 1971. Filmsite's Greatest Films of 1971. THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) A Clockwork Orange (1971, UK) Fiddler on the Roof (1971) The Last Picture Show (1971)
- 1972. Filmsite's Greatest Films of 1972. THE GODFATHER (1972) Cabaret (1972) Deliverance (1972) The Emigrants (1971, Swe.) (aka Utvandrarna)
- 1973. Filmsite's Greatest Films of 1973. THE STING (1973) American Graffiti (1973) Cries and Whispers (1972, Swe.) (aka Viskningar Och Rop) The Exorcist (1973)
[The big-budget Patton (at about $12 million) was the first war film to win Best Picture since 1962, when Lawrence of Arabia (1962) won the Best Picture award. It was also the first PG-rated film to win Best Picture since the institution of the MPAA rating system.]
The Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) since the awards debuted in 1929.
